Polykleitos Greek, active c. 460 – 420 BCE
Doryphoros (Spear-Bearer), c. 440 BCE (Roman copy)
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A muscular young man steps forward, weight on his right leg, his left hand once gripping a spear on his shoulder. Polykleitos made the bronze original around 440 BCE to demonstrate his treatise on ideal proportion, the Canon. It survives only in Roman marbles like this one from Pompeii, and its relaxed contrapposto shaped Western sculpture for centuries.
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The tree stump behind the leg and the strut at the right wrist are the copyist's additions: marble needs props that the bronze original did without.
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